The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
ON 'CHAN6E.
SuaARis ouiet at Havana,

SUdARl5 qulet az hhNhnd'
MINING shares are active in New
York.
BANK OF COMMERCE stocks sold yea
terdsy at call at 1881.
IT is not generally known that snow
fell here at noon on Monday last.
AT the New Orleans market -four is
dull, corn and oats quiet, hog products
steady.
ST. LOUIS cash corn, wheat and oats
of 4c each. Pork unchang d; cash
lard of 61c; clear ribs of loc.
The Cotton ExchsnSe Factors and
Buyers baseball mines have not yet
been listed at the Stock Exchange.
AT the Nerch ants Excbauga yester
day nav rules were adOp,ei fir the
government OF the Stock Call Board.
AT Cincinnati -four Is stronger,
wheat and oats easier, corn aud rye
steady, pork and bulk meats quiet.
Com aud wheat are firmer aud dull
at Baltimore. Receipti-Flour, 5l28
brIs; wheat, 1000 bu; corn, 5000 bu;
o ts, 1000 bu. Shipments-Oorn, 49,
600 bu,
THERE was Il good atttnds1os g. The
London wool sales yesterday. The
competition was good and full prices
W re btlined. Cross breds advanced
slightly.
The drouth is reported very severe
in Southern and Central Illinois
Wheat and oats are suffering to some
extent, but the damage 30 far is not
very serious.
MEMPHIS co ton receipts yesterday,
239 bales; shipments, 331 bales; sales,
$50 bales; stock on hand, 30, OIL bales (;
total receipts to date, 649,949; total
shipments, 612, ,626 bales.
The Cotton F. ctors' nine are known
as the "bulls" and the Buyers nine
are the "bears" of the baseball field.
The baseball game OF May GIN will be
of most interesting character.
THE sounding board has wonder
fully improved the acoustics OF the
Merchants Exchange, and now
Secretary Keeling's musical voice no
longer disturbs the caves where echo
lies.
The Tennessee Executive Commit
tee on the improvement Of Western
Waterways will meet at the committee
rooms OF the Merchants Exchange at
IL 80 o'clock this Wednesday fore
noon.
Ar CHICAGO cash, May and June
pork remains unchanged; cash lard
off 121c; cash and May clear ribs ad
vanced 27Ac. Cash and May wheat
up &c; cash corn of Bc; cash oats
AT Liverpool wheat is quiet but
steady, demand poor Corn quiet bul
steady, demand poor. Receipts o.
wheat the past three days, l27,OOC
csntals, including $4,000 American
receipts Of American corn the pas'
three days, SO, 400 Centals.
VISITORS on Change yesterday
Jeffrev Davis, Rhode Island; q. Win
ston, Friar's Point, Miss. DR.. A. A
Young, Como, Miss; ]. Payne, Her
nando, Miss; Frank LaWler, Ken
lucky; W. ii. McMunay, For,
Smith, AK; DR.. G. A. Maddox
Mise. 4 Mrs. Hunter, Mt, Pleasant
Misc; Miss Hunter, Mt. Pleasant
Miss.
THE Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company is negotiating for th'
purchase Of extensive cotton compress
property at Montgomery, Ala. II sue
cessful in its contemplated purchase
{ the road will have monopoly OF th'
freight on the cotton compressed a
, Montgomery, and will 30 head of th'
threatening competition Of water trans
portation at that point.
THE Bradstreet Agency reports l6
failures in the United States durinl
the week ending April 10, 1887, agains
1872 in the preceding week, and JOS
ia, 1876 and 163 10 the corresponding
weeks Of 1888, 1885, 1884 and 1883
respectively. Middle States, 81 New
/. England States, 25; Southern S'ates
! 40; Western Stats, 81; Pacific State
: and Territories, 81; Canada, 2l, To
tai in the United States and Canads
: 1877